New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-09
SWEPT OFF A NARROW WALK
FOUR MEN KILLED IN THIRD-AvE.


"a. to be the indirect cause OF trighttul injury anf
io. ot life beean soon after a. yesterday. wheI
,ho 6r.men gathered in force to extngu'eh hames
Donald Nseoli's tailoring establishment in the Bowery
Thu 6re.nen he possession OF the up track OF the Ee
waited road between Grand and Broone s~ Tor more
than An hour. Tra,ns on their way fr'm south Ferry
md CITY all soon blocked the uptacks and stretched
IN = long line below Grapd-st The stanoing train'
reached to Chatham Square in lew minutes
rumber Of Third Avenue trains had to be run over the
Second Avenue line to keep the tracF clear oeio"
Chatham Square; but the trains OF both roads couu
not be crowded In Second-avc. On the 'itV nan
b, anch the tracks were room occuprd ny s'""ink
Train. and then the blockade hogan to extend up the
Bowery, along the down track Oh INC in"u 80
Nina In less than an hour aitsr the fire started Trains
-. ..ndnv on the west side Of the Bower,. oppo-
.,,. ,ha burnme building and the pAssepgers Locked
s.ross the wide thoroughiare ct the hames AT S:Lo
~ m the upper end OF tao line VAS between the -FOUR
e I.t"r - TRIM which had passed the Eighteenth
Street Station came to standsthi just oe'o" oeVon
$eepth-st -, A.. ....,.r. ,vor.
ryumblinp ut the delay From the Trans which stood
Al eta lone many OF the iassengers went 10 the street
and sought transportation D, Tue sur,uee cars
many who old not wish TO be late 1T their places Oh
empfoymcnt. Some of the b0der men insisted upon
leaving tho oars me .a Ssa Of sSs ee
vatsd tra,k. The iootwsy Ii mt ndea only ior tne
use II railway employees. Ii has width o. Tour mar
boards laid side by side on me ptSeetos ends ."
the srctor portion VI tue THIRD Avenue ROAD the 1901
ways projected by iron iaiiings but ,he ralnes
have rot yet been put in place between Niu'h,s. ad
Thir, y-to,rth-st The narrow boards were slippery
Yesterday morning, and J, was not 81 g 70 whIh on
Them rose to the trains; yet more than Two
men chose 10 take the risk between Se' enteeuth ST.
and the Fourteenth Street Station: Some unavailna
protest ~ns made by the guards here % railing 90
tho Forth end OF The station platform a, roni,ce,n
procession were obliged TO climb he deiay nj that
point made the progress OF the men on the iootway
slower and more dsngerous: - -
greatest, the trains suddenly began to move. ih'
stautly there dangerous wavering along the lne
Of ,he progression Men caught hoid 81 one ahoner 20
keen from falling of the tootway. Here and there All
excited individual tried to climb back Oh ira H. just
y hei O the crowd the IO0tway was most danger,
about TEN beyond the north end oil tbe Foufecnth
Street platform, "a man made a desperate attemtt TO
get ON the lear end OF the last car OF tram he
am Was IN motion, and the gate OF the car aiform
Wis clusel: but he chung madly 10 the gate His
bod, formed o wedge between the car platform and
the CROW the ioOtway. and forced the men toward
the unruarded ago OF tue walk
rnere as brict struggle as the train moved 1or'
ward with increasing speed. Men caught boid OF one
another Wildly, with the impulse OF rear aLd chung
tightly as tbcy cere forced on inc iootway. noo"o
inst dec ly in OF stewards Ol ster rooms az NO
1872 Thr,-ave. Ciies OF horror were uttered oy the
remaining ON the foot~sy and were repeated oy
persons in the avenue / rom the writhlDg mass OF
m-n OH the sidewalk came groans OF anug sh. Two
men no had fallen top quickly disengaged theu-
aelves IRON the rest and moved away, apparently uh
hurt as q crowd closed In about those who still lay
helpless
On a few minutes the excitement at the place where
tie accident occurred was at lever neat a humber
OF me- who had escaped falling irOn the tootway ran
down from the station to he those who hal fallen
They we've joined by go many others that there was
danger tha. The IN ured men would De snnocaIed or
xsuc, nlaI an Inv TN crOWu. Policemen
way through tho throng and cleared space. When
the forms Of the fallen men were distna gied, three
were found TO be already dead. hey Lad fallen
under the others and had struck their heads Two
though still we, were rn>ensioie and evidently
hurt Seven others we're hurt so seriously
rs To DC helpless for the 0m'nt at least. Wiling
hand. lifted the living and the dead from he muddy
pavement. Ambulance calls were sent out from the
Tw enty-second Street Police Station and from the
nearest signal box. |, not lsrg before ambuanoes
arrived IRON Bellevue Hospital the New-York Hos
piral and St vinceuts Hospital each with surgeon.
In meantime the train on the elevated road had
got fairly in motion again the dangerous footway
Was cleared aud the excited man who mad caused the
death aud injury others bad been lost ght OF COM
pletey. Policemen from the Twenty second street
station we're present in sufficient number TO keep the
crowds 10 check and to assist in removing the dead
and injured.
The following list OF killed and wounded was made out
late in the day:
MATTHEW'S PATRICK age for Of No AZ East Twenty
woIk when accident occurred he sustained com.
Srsus rs wars wa s saed BY his yw sSC
seQurnty taken TO his home lie leaves wife and four
HceABk fArmck n!y HIS skull and righ, wrist were
McCa.s Scna upon hun and s Ss vas sns:s
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and III: M q ,s
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DOYLE WILLIAM eighteen. Of No 74s Thmdav. he was
Taken to a. MOI
as
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are not considered serious he was taken to Bellevue
Lrcs. 11nEs thirty seven painter Of No lss Ess;
but not fatal lie We. taken 10 Bellevue Iosp.i;
H !: s%pI:yss :. AVA Waiter i hoss
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SHOEMAKER twenty steam filter OF No. 1867
Ave.A His thigh bone Is fractured and he sustained
bruiseA He Will He WAS taken TO Bellevue
Hospital - -, nm, -.
WIILkR. EMIL, twenty. unsmith OF No: 207 East
Ninety. thiTdst He sustained serious injury TO his
spine. but will He was taken TO the NeW.York
Hospital
william Kennedy, Of the injured men, was soon in
Bellevue Hospital by TRIBUNE reporter. In speaking
Of the accident he said:
from the engine and when the train
stopped and stood still long went out
70 what was tho matter. One oil the
Pfakemon opened the eates ana steppoa aoWn On .ho
didn't eight minuteG started TO walk TO
the platform Of the here great many on this
walk moving toward the station platform but how many
hai only little way when gu denly
l skirts Of and pull down into
the street.
Kennedy was positive that the trainmen made no
eOrts The passengers from leaving the
Rchard Shoemaker another Of the injured at Bellevue
Oaid:
on the second train from the platform Of the Four
teoph street station When the train aoppcd and the
people waking toward the tAton got on the No